Most large mistakes in organizational design come from putting the individual ambitions of the people at the top of the organization ahead of the communication paths for the people at the bottom of the organization.
BEN HOROWITZDon’t punk out and don’t quit.
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I think theres a lot to be said about just enjoying your work. It can be very contrived when people say their work is for the good of mankind.
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To succeed at selling a losing product, you must develop seriously superior sales techniques. In addition, you have to be massively competitive and incredibly hungry to survive in that environment.
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You can take somebody’s job, you have to take their job, but you don’t have to take their dignity.
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A lot of it is on the job training, combined with excellent mentorship.
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Until you make the effort to get to know someone or something, you don’t know anything.
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Relationships built from a business do better than the reverse.
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How do you make your company a good place to work in general? That’s a really really really large and complex set of skills.
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It’s quite possible for an executive to hit her goal for the quarter by ignoring the future.
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The important thing about mobile is, everybody has a computer in their pocket. The implications of so many people connected to the Internet all the time from the standpoint of education is incredible.
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Volatility and length, that’s the value on an option. 10 years on a startup stock, that’s a big valuable thing.
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Hire sales people who are really smart problem solvers, but lack courage, hunger and competitiveness, and your company will go out of business.
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These decisions intensify when you run a company, because the consequences get magnified 1,000 fold. As in life, the excuses for CEOs making the wrong choice are always plentiful.
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There are no shortcuts to knowledge, especially knowledge gained from personal experience. Following conventional wisdom and relying on shortcuts can be worse than knowing nothing at all.
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Here’s where we are and here’s what I didn’t recognize about us and about you when I made the decision, and now it is what it is.
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The only thing that prepares you to run a company is running a company.
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